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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 7h

with no rain, and sunshine!! Great experience for the students!!

Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Maybe same that some ciliates fix themselves to large diatoms; it increases the flow around the epibiont compared to just floating around?

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The analysis reveals patterns of state–corporate collusion and regulatory inaction, with states such as Norway and China promoting krill exploitation for economic benefit by blocking stricter quotas and the establishment of marine protected areas.

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Interesting article - pointing to the usual suspects on non-sustainable, unregulated fisheries: Killing the Antarctic Krill: Assessing State–Corporate Environmental Crime in the Southern Ocean www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view...

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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is an open access, blind peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about...

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If it is on an open repository/freely available, it is free game IMO. I used to publish my whole alignments, or even intermediate files so people could easily reuse. All NSF OCE raw data is available at BCO-DMO, for example. Or genbank.

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, it has been 0 years without an Atlantic hurricane, at the end

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

si me lo firman todos, cojo el avion solo para ir a votar

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pincers, and I suppose living in similar Reynolds numbers

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

not to be pedantic - the larvae of all ctenophores is the cydippid larvae... That is, like a small gooseberry. Then, as larvae, would be very difficult to say what they will be when adults. If they are larvae - if those are small adults, then yes, sea gooseberries!!

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Closing the week with the submission for publication of the first chapter of @coocoo4coccos.bsky.social dissertation!! Not a bad way to do it!! (yes yes, I still have to teach, 4 meetings, etc. BUT this is the event of the day... Or maybe of the WEEK!) Josue - two more to go!!!

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That is more on the "sink water after washing dishes" that chocolate milk, I would say

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

que bueno verlo, porque me acuerdo de haber respondido a las preguntas...

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Lambros Frantzeskakis @lambrosf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re a graduate student and interested in fungi please apply, this a great opportunity to experience research in an industry setting jobs.bayer.com/job/Chesterf...

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Fungal Discovery & Genomics Co-Op

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this is also the (almost complete) closure of the US market to foreign postdocs. For many, the next best option is this. I know many even US postdocs applying to this now, since the US market is collapsing.

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The International Society of Protistology is funding community initiatives like workshops and symposia! The deadline is soon (09/30) but the funding will also be available next year :-) Send to anyone that might benefit from this/plz retweet! #ProtistsonSky protistologists.org/call-for-app...

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Call for Applications: Community Initiative Support Fund - International Society of Protistologists

The International Society of Protistologists is an association of scientists devoted to research on single-celled eukaryotes, or protists. The ISOP promotes the presentation and discussion of new or i...

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Submit your abstract to #ASLO2027! Deadline is AGAIN in 3 DAYS! If you work on anything related to plankton optical properties (color, transparency, satellite observations, modeling!!), check our session, we would love to see you there - talks and posters welcome!! Let's go to Puerto Rico!

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

based in literature, one of the largest and most studied species, P. xiphias, is at least 5 different species. Oithona similis, at least 10. And these are the "known since ever", living in the epipelagic!! Then, just the known copepods might be really 50,000. And the unknown from the deep?2x?3x?4x?

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Might be better but... Let's take my group of expertise, Copepods. Described species: ~13,000, marine ~10000 (some are freshwater, and some even semiterrestrial living in the water of bromelia, bananas, moss and things like that... unexplored completely in most places). If we look marine,

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Am with Jo. The percentage of described crustaceans is EXTREMELY optimistic, when we have only a handful of deep sea samples (the largest biome in extension), and when we look there in detail we find 100s of undescribed species PER SAMPLE, just for copepods. And Nematoda people will say the same

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We have a bloom of that phyto right now at BIOS! Some blue light yesterday with the net...

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Looking for something to do these last hours of the week (other than checking for new cat videos)? Submit your abstract to #ASLO2027! Deadline in 4 DAYS! If you work on anything related to plankton optical properties, check our session, we would love to see you there - talks and posters welcome!!

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We have/had the same issues with metazoans discovered by molecular methods... I might be old school, but I do not think just molecular data is enough

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hi Chris, are these pictures yours? Could I get a couple nice pictures for my invertebrate evolution course? There are not many good pictures of platyctenida around... Plenty of videos and animations of the planktonic ones, a handful of poor pictures of the benthic...

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

While we all complain and fear over cuts in funding, others face more serious problems. A colleague from Ukraine incarcerated, already for a year, for supporting backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

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Free Leonid Pshenichnov!

This 70-year-old scientist is in jail for blowing the whistle to protect Antarctica. Sign now to demand his release.

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

...for proposals with a research and training focus at the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Biological Sciences to Strengthen and Safeguard Biotechnology Innovations. There goes the free thinking and broad creativity.

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) is now open! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Repartiendo carnets de españoles otra vez.

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

what I never understood is why they did not move the candy flavor to the one of the new banana. Same with grape flavor - why did they stick to the wild concord grape?

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

But, they jelly beans taste like the previous commercial banana we had - the Gros-Michel variety, which got wiped by the Panama disease. The new Cavendish banana is resistant to it, BUT the flavor is not even similar! Somehow jelly beans flavor is all what is left of the previous...

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Deadline for abstract submission for the #ASLO2027 is in two weeks!! Come to talk about The Color of Plankton!

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One of the last days in Spain we met this little guy on the road going home. It was friendly and allowed us to relocate it to the tall grass, away from the tarmac

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Would be interesting to compare to R academic citations, I have the feeling it is getting more and more common... But might be wrong, and just that in our lab we have adopted it completely and now I see it

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Is it really going down? Is this the effect of AI usage to develop code?

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